Washington Trollers Association v. Juanita Kreps, Secretary of Commerce

PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:

Appellants — several associations representing commercial troll fishermen, and named individual troll fishermen — appeal from a summary judgment against them in this suit challenging the 1978 Fishery Management Plan for commercial and recreational salmon fisheries off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California (“the Plan”). Appellants seek a declaration that the Plan does not conform to the provisions of the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976, 16 U.S.C. §§ 1801-82 [“the FCMA”], and the guidelines established pursuant to that act, 50 C.F.R. 602.2,…